predisposition

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Your ideal rise time is linked to your chronotype, your genetic predisposition to waking at a certain time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

The Oscar-winning actor announced in 2013 that she had undergone a double mastectomy, followed by a double oophorectomy in 2015, due to her genetic predisposition to cancer.

From Barron's • Dec. 15, 2025

Genetic predisposition increases disease risk in certain populations.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

Looking at his genome, and comparing it with polygenic scores, they found that Hitler had a high predisposition for autism, ADHD, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Lowell and Schiaparelli and others, doing visual observations under difficult seeing conditions, were misled—in part perhaps because of a predisposition to believe in life on Mars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan